Data Transfer Monitoring Tool Added

A few Alpha testers are still experiencing problems with the data transfer process. So to help resolve their problems, I've added a Monitoring screen to the Desktop application. It can be accessed from the Tools menu.


This feature was added to the July 14th version of the application aka Version Alpha 1.15.

Improved Response Time on Mobile Devices

When you are selecting a poll to start, resume, or review, the mobile application has historically just queried the file to get such information as the summary, the number of questions, and the number of responses. On a newer mobile device, this poses no problem whatsoever and occurs almost instantaneously. However, on older units it actually takes quite a few seconds to retrieve this info. On some really old units, the delay was completely unacceptable.

So I introduced an indexing scheme that involves new code in each of the Desktop, Data Transfer, and Mobile modules. The system now caches all of the necessary summary info of the Template files, which are the ones used to start new polls. The speed improvements on the mobile device are dramatic.

Data Transfer Video

A few testers have had a "less than perfect experience" with the Data Transfer component of Pocket Pollster. The fact is that Data Transfer is supposed to be absolutely simple and straightforward, with almost always no interaction required by the user. Just sync your device, as you normally would with ActiveSync and then everything after that is taken care of automatically.

I thought it would be helpful to provide a short video of what should happen in a typical Data Transfer operation. To view this 7.04MB video, please click here.

The speed of the entire procedure is most dependent on the speed of the mobile device. In this video the device was an older Pocket PC 2002 model, quite slow compared to today's units.